Author:
Camponeschi Federico,Gemmato Valentina,Scotti Filippo,Rinaldi Luca,Mohammad Ahmad W.,Roeloffzen Chris G.,van Dijk Paul W.,Ghelfi Paolo
Abstract
This paper reports the first-ever beamforming demonstration of a hybrid photonic integrated circuit operating as RF down-converter based on an optical Blass-matrix architecture for a Scan-on-Receive synthetic aperture radar intended for Earth observation from space.